A living room in a private house has features compared to a similar room in an apartment building, mainly due to the size of the territory (in a private house, rooms are usually larger in size) and because of the variety of decor options. The whole family usually gathers in the living room, receiving guests. That is why it is so important to arrange a single ensemble in the room, in which curtains, furniture, wall and floor covering, and other details will be combined in style. The advice of our experts will help you decide on the design of the room.
Self-selection of furniture, accessories, curtains is an interesting activity that will help any housewife or house owner to show their creativity. It is not at all necessary for this to invite specialists and spend a lot of money on it.
There are no trifles for the living room. All interior details should be compatible with each other and with the overall style of the house. It is necessary to provide a place for:
A living room in a private house is a room where the whole family, from the older generation to babies, spends time, so everyone should have their own work area. For grandparents, it will most likely be a rocking chair with a floor lamp, for parents - a cozy romantic fireplace, a comfortable sofa with pillows, for children - a play area, and for everyone - a TV. Young people will surely appreciate the bar counter with the ability to mix cocktails and experiment with drinks, ice cream and so on.
When designing a room, you need to take into account that some aspects of the formation of the wall covering and the alignment of the walls will slightly reduce the area of the room. But you can use this to decorate a room, for example, round corners, make a zoning ledge, and so on.
Before filling the living room with furniture and various details, it is necessary to draw up a plan of the room, taking into account the location of windows and doors. Even at the construction stage, it is necessary to determine which of the rooms is suitable for the proud name "living room", and to resolve the issue with its layout. An ordinary square or rectangular room no longer always satisfies the discerning tastes of the owners. Oval, round rooms or polygons are gaining more and more attention.
If you want to place a fireplace in the living room, then you need to build it in accordance with the rules that apply to such structures.
Among other things, creating a plan of a room with an indication of the dimensions will warn you against mistakes in a furniture store, which are usually associated with the fact that furniture in a large space seems smaller than it actually is. So you will avoid the situation when the purchased sofas and armchairs simply will not fit into the doorways.
A minimalist, austere style is most suitable for a room with a geometric shape with corners, and a more gentle, romantic style for rounded rooms.
More on styles in the next section.
The style of living room decoration depends on the preferences of the owner. Let's consider the most popular ones.
Natural. To organize a room in a natural style, it is required to use natural materials for decoration. For walls - wooden slats or lining, on the floor - treated boards or parquet, you can also use cork. Also, all interior details will be made in a natural style, using wooden elements. Colors will be preferred light, warm, without doubtful combinations.
Natural style: an abundance of wooden details
Urban. The style of a big city: an abundance of large, bright details, large windows, wide spaces - that is what characterizes this style.
Large windows are cozy Minimalistic. A room in this style is characterized by a minimum of furniture, extreme functionality of everything that surrounds it. The wall covering in such a room will be distinguished by a discreet, but geometrically verified pattern, and the furniture will not be a decoration for beauty, but to fulfill its primary task.
Bright details refresh Classical. The classics do not lose their relevance at all times. In such a room, a fireplace decorated with stucco molding, as well as furniture in a strict, "grandmother's" style, looks especially relevant. Candlesticks, family photos, figurines will be the perfect interior decoration for the design of the living room in the house.
Classic style Separately, I would like to say about the living room combined with the kitchen. This is a variant of a large room that combines elements of a dining room and a living room. In order for the room to look organic and to be comfortable in it, it is necessary to provide for several points.
Living room combined with kitchen The selection of furniture, the installation of a fireplace, the arrangement of small decor details - this is not the whole design. The design is based on the interior decoration in the room. Regardless of the style chosen, in accordance with your preferences about comfort, functionality and cost, you must decide in advance on the materials for decorating the walls, floor and ceiling. We offer cork, wood, plastic and wallpaper for consideration.
Cork will become an environmentally friendly material for floors and walls. The cork floor is environmentally friendly, it is soft, pliable to pressure, but gives off its natural warmth without unnecessary coatings. It is pleasant to walk on such a floor barefoot, children can play on it, and the choice of colors and patterns is quite rich. This coating has only one drawback: it does not like moisture, prefers dry cleaning. You also need to be careful when installing such a structure in a living room with a corner fireplace or central hearth.
Wood looks actual in the interior The lining is ideal for rounding corners, and in order not to lose useful area, you can mount doors in closed corners and place miniature cabinets inside.
Aligning the walls is a task of medium difficulty, it is necessary to do this so that the coating on the walls falls flat.
If you prefer natural materials, then wood is the best option for you.
Plastic compares favorably with other coating options for its relatively low cost, as well as color options: for every taste. Such a coating is easy to install, it is also easy to care for: it is easy to wash, it does not need to be treated with special agents and often changed.
When choosing a plastic panel, pay attention to its quality: how it keeps its shape, whether the panel has straight corners, whether the panel has a bend in excess of the norm, how the blocks are connected to each other (how easy).
Important! In a room with a real fireplace, it is not recommended to decorate the walls and ceiling with plastic panels due to the extreme fire hazard.
Wallpaper matches the pattern with pillows It is a pleasure to stick wallpaper on even walls made of plasterboard. The most important thing is to choose an interesting color that suits the style and correctly.
Please note that the design of a living room in a private house assumes instability of heating and humidity, so you need to choose a strong wallpaper glue so that over time the paper or vinyl covering does not begin to peel off the walls. Also, after cutting, before sticking, it is advisable to keep the wallpaper indoors for several days so that they "get used" to its microclimate.
Special care is required for wallpapering the ceiling, it is important that there are no folds and areas with excess glue.
The choice of color scheme is important for the decoration of the room, since, unlike pieces of furniture or decor, it is more difficult to change it.
For a room decorated in a natural style, for the design of a living room in a wooden house, in particular, warm colors are suitable: beige, pink, white with a pearl tint.
Warm colors in the interior If you want to make the room bright, bold, choose bright colors: rich red, noble burgundy, full blue. Do not forget that to justify the presence of a bright color in the interior, you need the presence of at least three things of the same color, one of which is a large object (for example, a sofa), one is medium (curtain decor), and one or more are complementary small details, such as frames for photos.
You can also zone the space of a large room with color, highlighting the area for children's games, for reading, for relaxing by the fireplace.
Regardless of whether you are the happy owner of a large living room or the space leaves much to be desired, the choice of furniture must be approached with all responsibility.
The basis of the furniture ensemble for the living room with a corner fireplace will be a sofa. It is on the sofa, in front of the coffee table, with your feet on the warm nap rug, that you can enjoy the play of the flames in your home. The main thing in choosing a sofa is to define its functions. Does this piece of furniture exist only for guests, or is it planned to be used as a bed, main or additional. An overly soft sofa is not suitable for either one, nor is it too hard.
In modern conditions, the choice of sofas is so great that you need to devote several days to this moment.
If your room has a free corner, then you can and even need to place a corner sofa there. A much larger number of guests will be able to sit on it, in addition, models with a minibar, with lifting armrests, with wooden elements that can be used as a table are often found.
Pay attention to the modularity of the sofa. When receiving guests, you may find it useful to be able to disassemble the sofa into several elements, ottomans, and arrange in a completely different way.
The sofa divides the room into zones The sofa can also serve as a kind of room divider into zones. At the same time, it is important that its backrest has a presentable appearance.
Living room with fireplace A fireplace can hardly be called a piece of furniture, unless it is electric and can be transferred at will to any part of the room. Design is a real scope for design ideas.
The choice of a fireplace entirely depends on the possibilities of the room. For the installation of some ready-made models, the permission of the relevant services is required, and for decorating the finished fireplace - special materials that meet fire safety requirements.
In the event that you have it, it will become the center of the composition in the living room. The entire decoration of the room will be held to emphasize the hearth, and not compete with it in the importance of place in the room.
The fireplace should not be located with the firebox on the window, it should also be located far from the line of drafts, away from the door. It is preferable to organize a recreation area near it.
Table and chairs are an extremely important detail A table and chairs are a necessary element of the living-dining room, it all depends on the place that you can allocate to the dining area. For someone, it will be more important to put a folding table so that it does not take up much space, while someone will consider a round table on one carved leg as the center of the composition and build the entire design of the room around it.
If a table is needed in order to put a few souvenirs and organize a place for children's activities, then it is important that it does not take up much space. If the whole family gathers at this table, then a large folding dining table is what you need.
Chairs need to be stable to maintain the overall style of the living room. You can put textile covers on them in combination with curtains, and change them as needed, change something in the interior.
It is known that in the living room they not only relax with the whole family, they also receive guests there, and this is exactly the time when she becomes a model for photographs. Check out the different design options for private home living rooms for inspiration.
Design of a room with a fireplace 
Corner fireplaces are popular
